Grosz, Elizabeth

Philosopher-Feminist Australian Born 1952 (age 74)

Developed feminist philosophy of becoming and difference.

381 quotes

"Representation structures how we understand the world."
Art
"The organism cannot be separated from its environment."
Nature
"Ethics emerges from our fundamental interdependence."
Kindness
"The virtual plane contains infinite potentialities."
Imagination
"Becoming-woman is a process, not an identity."
Philosophy
"We must resist the impulse to totalize and fix meaning."
Wisdom
"The map is never the territory it seeks to represent."
Knowledge
"Power is not external but constitutive of subjects."
Power
"Surfaces and depths are misleading distinctions."
Philosophy
"The real is always more complex than our conceptual frameworks."
Truth
"Lived experience cannot be reduced to abstract categories."
Wisdom
"Culture is always embedded in particular material conditions."
History
"The body speaks in ways language cannot capture."
Art
"Meaning emerges through difference and repetition."
Philosophy
"We must think beyond the binary of nature and culture."
Wisdom
"The subject is constituted through its exclusions."
Philosophy
"Time collapses and expands in different temporal registers."
Time
"Freedom is constrained but not determined by conditions."
Freedom
"The personal is always already political and institutional."
Politics
"Pedagogy involves the transmission of desires as much as knowledge."
Education
"We must account for the materiality of signs and symbols."
Philosophy
"Becoming requires the courage to abandon fixed identities."
Courage
"The archive contains gaps and silences that are productive."
History
"Space organizes and constrains possibilities for action."
Philosophy
"The body is a site of both inscription and resistance."
Philosophy
"Knowledge is always situated and perspectival."
Knowledge
"We must interrogate the naturalization of social categories."
Justice
"Desire propels us toward the unknown and unknowable."
Philosophy
"The future is not predetermined but open to intervention."
Hope
"The body is not opposed to culture; it is culture"
Philosophy